{"id":581,"date":"2015-10-22T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T01:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=581"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:38:35","slug":"forum-on-affordable-housing-teach-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley&#8217;s Housing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-582 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c-300x300.png\" alt=\"HousingCrisis4c\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c-624x624.png 624w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/HousingCrisis4c.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sunday, November 22nd,\u00a02pm-4:30 pm,\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Berkeley Arts Festival Space,\u00a02133 University\u00a0(between Shattuck &amp; Oxford Streets)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Soaring rents and home prices have made Berkeley an increasingly unaffordable place. People can&#8217;t find housing, live in fear of eviction. We&#8217;ve lost much of our city&#8217;s diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> learn more about this crisis and what can we do:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What can our local elected officials do?<\/p>\n<p>How do we prevent displacement of lower income folk and people of color?<\/p>\n<p>Discuss ways to get funding for affordable housing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>increase business license fee paid by large landlords<\/li>\n<li>city density bonus<\/li>\n<li>housing impact fees and inclusionary housing<\/li>\n<li>new revenue, such as a proposed tax on short-term rentals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speakers include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Barton, Ph.D., Former Director of the Housing Department and Deputy Director of the Rent Stabilization Program in Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>Moni Law, Affordable Housing Activist<\/li>\n<li>Rick Lewis, Executive Director, \u00ad\u00adBay Area Community Land Trust, former Housing Advisory Commission Member<\/li>\n<li>Austin Pritzkat, President, Berkeley Student Cooperative<\/li>\n<li>Katherine Harr, Berkeley Tenants Union<\/li>\n<li>Facilitated by Paola Laverde, Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board Commissioner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be an opportunity for questions and comments<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee for a Progressive Berkeley with support from Berkeley Citizens Action, the Berkeley Tenants Union, Berkeley NAACP and the Sustainable Berkeley Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/896111150438591\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/896111150438591\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, November 22nd,\u00a02pm-4:30 pm,\u00a0Berkeley Arts Festival Space,\u00a02133 University\u00a0(between Shattuck &amp; Oxford Streets) Soaring rents and home prices have made Berkeley an increasingly unaffordable place. People can&#8217;t find housing, live in fear of eviction. We&#8217;ve lost much of our city&#8217;s diversity. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=581\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berkeley&#8217;s Housing Crisis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}